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[hammercarexplosion]

Scrolling through tumblr these days is like scrolling through a field of corpses: Awesome black political blogger I used to follow, Awesome black political blogger I used to follow, trans woman I used to follow, Awesome Latino political blogger I used to follow, Awesome native political blogger I used to follow, trans woman I didn't follow but still knew, Awesome nonbinary political blogger I used to follow, trans woman I used to follow, trans woman I used to follow, black blogger who mostly just posted funny stuff I used to follow, etm.

[hammercarexplosion]

These senseless bans aren't just cruelly removing these people from their online communities, they're removing the online communities from tumblr. We are worse off without each one of them. Our lives are emptier. And the worst part is they're not even really *dead*, just completely out of reach. Yet finding their old posts still feels like walking through a graveyard....

[warriorblood1]

im playing disco elysium for the first time and it might be too early to call it but i think ive come across the funniest goddamn exchange in the game

[soon-palestine]

Israeli settlers evict last two families from West Bank village

Israeli settlers have forced the last two Palestinian families out of the West Bank village of ‘Ein Samia, marking the end of Palestinian pr

[immloveanime]

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

[redlipstickresurrected]

Yan Wei aka 闫威 aka Kokomoo aka 闫伟 aka Wei Yan (Chinese, b. 1981, Beijing, China, based Montclair, NJ, USA) - 爱之入髓 (Love from the Innermost of Marrow), 2013, Paintings: Acrylic on Paper

[jasminocano]

[andrewmaxedon]

Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

[radiowithnohead]

ive thought about this piece daily since first seeing it

[midnightinthemagicmicagarden]

Ok. It feels callous... actually everything feels callous. Feeling hungry feels callous. But I need to pull together the other $600 for my mom's cremation today. I have a meeting with the funeral director tomorrow. I also have a landlord that keeps acting like my mother is dying/died is a "my dog ate my homework" level excuse for being unable to pay rent on time. I still owe $3500 and my mom's SSI won't be able to help with rent or food because it's not coming. I'm halfway through the month so I should try to get next month together as well so I can approximate something akin to Shiva when her ashes return in about 2 weeks. I ultimately if I'm going to keep being an artist, I will need money to buy a new scanner and computer and paint brushes. Amazon never did deliver the wishlist gifts. Oh and food. I'm going to need food.

I shut down Etsy because it's awful but I can still sell and ship paintings.

While donations are appreciated, I'm really only asking that followers whom are able buy some art. Prices begin at $65 for a 5"x 7" piece on paper, including shipping all the way up to $2700 for a wired and ready to hang 30"x 40" wood panel.

The kind words and financial support from my community on Tumblr is all I really have. My family is gone now that my mom is gone. My friendships withered over the years because no one understood what I was going through and they didn't want to be contaminated by my misfortunes and misery.

Sales payable via venmo- Kate-Havekost and PayPal [email protected]

[1oldbear]

Buy some art, people. It's really good. I have there pieces on my wall right now.

[wrenhavenriver]

This spot marks our grave, but you may rest here too, if you'd like.

[txttletale]

ECONONY: ITS BAD

hi everybody. i'm going to keep this short and sweet. i'm a disabled immigrant trans woman in a country that's trying to legislate all those kinds of people out of existence. my main source of income is freelance copywriting, a field which has been drying up as chatgpt takes on the role of writing boring interchangable sludge words to put on about pages, and my flatmate just moved out, leaving me suddenly saddled with twice the amount of bills i usually pay.

tldr: i need help. if you have any amount of money at all to spare, i appreciate it:

ko-fi • paypal

if you don't want to just give me money for being a trans girl on the computer, you can buy poetry and tabletop games from me on itch, which helps too. thanks.

[cocoon2010]

[immloveanime]

Lain Iwakura

[hmzamahamed3]

Donate to Save Gaza Family: Urgent Evacuation Fund, organized by MOHAMMED Hilles

Hello, My name is mohammd, married and a father of four child… MOHAMMED Hilles needs your support for Save Gaza Family: Urge

Help me get my children out. I want to see them safe. Help my family

[hmzamohammed]

The situation is getting more serious, please help. My children wish for a happy life, nothing more. They want to play like the .children of the world

Donate to Save Gaza Family: Urgent Evacuation Fund, organized by MOHAMMED Hilles

Hello, My name is mohammd, married and a father of four child… MOHAMMED Hilles needs your support for Save Gaza Family: Urge

[el-shab-hussein]

I'm not sure if I posted this one yet. But considering tumblr has decided to censor it for... featuring Palestinian children, as if Palestinian children are some kind of forbidden content you shouldn't see, I will post it.

This is a legit fundraiser that was verified by Nairuz! They're 7k from their goal! More than halfway through!

[three-croissants]

His new account is @hmzamahamed3 so please follow him and show him support! They’re getting closer and closer to their goal 🙏🏻♥️

[hmzamohammed]

The situation is getting more serious, please help. My children wish for a happy life, nothing more. They want to play like the .children of the world

Donate to Save Gaza Family: Urgent Evacuation Fund, organized by MOHAMMED Hilles

Hello, My name is mohammd, married and a father of four child… MOHAMMED Hilles needs your support for Save Gaza Family: Urge

[scorpio-system]

hey staff why did you delete a photo of a refugee fundraiser just asking

[sayruq]

This is why the fundraisers you see are between $10,000 - 150,000. Palestinians have no choice but to raise that money which is why you all need to share those posts at the very least. Reblog those posts. Post them to your other social media accounts if you have them. Donate! Please, these people are in need

[silicacid]

Ibrahim Al-Organi is the crossing broker and friend of Sisi’s son

There are minor tribal leaders and there are influential tribal leaders. And then there is Ibrahim Al-Organi. Hajj Ibrahim, as his supporter

Meet Ibrahim al-Organi, the Sinai tribal leader under scrutiny over Gaza war

From holding police officers hostage to becoming the richest person in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the militia chief has had a meteoric rise

[tawfiksatooom]

Please, it's too late ‼️‼️‼️

Only 9 days left until my donation campaign ends😭.

Time is running out!

Please help me by donating so I can escape the war in Gaza and continue my studies.

Your support means the world to me. 🙏

PLEASE DONATE & BOOST 🥹

1$ make difference ⬇️☹️

Help Tawfik and his family reach safety

Tawfik was an engineering student with a happy family before the unimaginable happened. The war has destroyed their home and they have been

Donate to Your help is the only hope to save us from war., organized by Tawfik Satoom

Urgent appeal: Escaping devastation in Gaza - saving a family's hope … Tawfik Satoom needs your support for Your help is the only hope to

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